The PennEast Update

The route changes AGAIN....

The route changes AGAIN....

Jan 20 2016-Seems like PennEast just can't find a route. Some route changes were recently released. It just goes to show you how much they rushed the process and how little they know of the area. The changes are not minor deviations along the path, but major changes that now results in more newly impacted landowners. Holland Twsp, and Kingwood Twsp have had some major changes, while the route in Delaware Twsp is unchanged.

On Feb 23 2016, PE filed route changes AGAIN. This time Delaware Twsp is affected by Alexuaken Creek. Its almost like they are just looking for properties where owners might give them permission!

PennEast in the News

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PennEast Made Me Do it:

​​Why my Family & I Moved to Solar Energy.

Huffington Post Blog

By Joy E Stocke

June 25 2016

Our pie-in-the-solar-sky chatter turned serious on August 12, 2014, when a consortium of 6 companies including utility giants Houston-based Spectra Energies, United Gas Industries, Atlanta-based AGL Resources, Long Island-based Public Service Enterprise Group, South Jersey Industries (SJI Midstream), and New Jersey Resources Pipeline Company, formed a Limited Liability Corporation that became the PennEast Pipeline Co. and announced that they would be building a 36-inch - three foot diameter pipeline to transport fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania across open space, through organic farms, a township solar field, historic districts, tax-payer preserved open space, wetlands, pristine C-1 streams, and crossing beneath the Delaware River on its 108 mile journey to a connector station just outside Princeton.READ STORY

PennEast in a Tailspin

June 9 2016

PennEast Pipeline In A Tailspin Of Delay And Uncertainty As Opposition By Legislators, Regulators, And The Public GrowsMultiple Gas Pipelines in the U.S. Halted as Difficulties Abound for Beleaguered Fossil Fuel Projects.

Mayors Rally in DC- May 11 2016

Mayors from New Jersey's Hunterdon & Mercer Counties, along with NJCF, ReThinkEnergyNJ and the StoneyBrook Millstone Watershed Association traveled to meet with the FERC to hand deliver 9,000 signatures protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline, as well as meet with other government agencies & legislators.

Stopthe PennEast Pipeline

The FERC has set Dec. 16, 2016 for issuing a notice of availability of the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and March 16, 2017, for the deadline for a federal decision on authorization. Delaying PennEast at least 7 months.

PennEast filing to Ferc in response to numerous citizens writing in about western landservice agents trespassing and the aerial fly overs along the route. As we all come to learn, anytime PennEast comments, most statements have been a misrepresentation. Spokeswoman Patricia Kornick once reported that PennEast does not do aerial surveys, yet the FAA records state that they have. One of our township officials who contacted PennEast about the aerial surveys was told that PennEast only did only one flyer, and few days later they called back and added additional flyover incidents. Clearly they are feeling the pressure from all who have commented.

Read Filing

Is PennEast really ​Needed? - June 18

​Another Reroute- A game of pin the route on a new landowner in hopes they say yes...

2-23-16 ​Once again PennEast has filed more major route changes. Five months after filing the application PennEast has had two major route changes affecting a whole new group of landowners, who have not been provided any scoping period to address their concerns.

RIP your Easment Agreement

Febuary 12 2016 - Press Release

Landowners in communities along the PennEast pipeline route gathered to rip up PennEast's easement agreement and stood united to tell PennEast to go home. The event took place in four different locations; three in PA, and one in NJ (See coverage to the right).

After numerous complaints filed with the The Federal Aviation Administrion (FAA), the FAA confirmed that PennEast has conducted aerial surveys despite the company's public denial of doing so.These low flying planes and helicopters have become a danger and nuisance to the community. Communites have filed complaints with the FAA that these frequent, low flying aircraft has been spooking livestock and disturbing the peace.

HALT - In the News

Febuary 5 2016 - Press Release

PennEast sent out Right Of Way agreements to some landowners.

Without legal counsel, this is some of what you could be in for:

The agreement states PennEast would have unlimited access to survey your land, sell your easement, and for perpetuity, have carte blanch to the right of way, which can be nearly 200 feet wide and within 19 feet of some houses.

Landowner's sign this right of way agreement in exchange for a one time fee. They can sell the right of way without your consent and sell it to a completely different company,

"The letters say nothing about lawyers. If you like the agreement sign here, here and here."

Commenting on the launch of HALT PennEast, Mr. Richardson said: “Given the unprecedented level of energy infrastructure development that is occurring across the United States, it now is more important than ever that natural gas pipeline companies engage with the communities in which they propose to operate in a respectful, informative, and clear manner. HALT PennEast was created, in part, because PennEast has utterly failed to treat landowners fairly or respectfully.”